People are asked to record race often because we still don’t have equality. This is going into a separate topic meant for a separate thread. But they aren’t simply identifying race for no good reason. They’re doing it because sadly, our communities have not shown that POC can be treated equally without enforcement.
Again, I have no interest in condoning violence. But you don’t have to condone it to understand its origins. I think many, many Americans are seriously struggling with the inability to place themselves in the shoes of the unheard.gracepoole:
Yes, he had some understanding of why people want to riot. Yet I note that this one quote keeps popping up, specifically because it was out of character for him to even give that level of acknowledgment of violence. He abhorred and opposed violence as a method of change. His ideal was Gandhi. His method of attention was sheer numbers. Right now there is no MLK in leadership position that can help turn anger into results. If nothing else, the civil rights movement this generation highlights what a great man he was.
He was able to amass great numbers of people in peaceful protest. The only way to amass such numbers again will only be through peaceful protest. It is the only way to get the attention of those that matter without becoming a spectacle, diverting attention from injustice to suppression of violence.
There are many things that are normal in one place and weird in another. I try not to make valuative statements based on the experiences of others.
Fine about what King said but that is pretty vague, I doubt if he is saying something like some of the race riots that have occurred in this country was just “the language of the unheard”, some of those riots saw many people die. Horrible.
Here’s a bit more context for you:gracepoole:
Fine about what King said but that is pretty vague, I doubt if he is saying something like some of the race riots that have occurred in this country was just “the language of the unheard”, some of those riots saw many people die. Horrible.
So? That applies as much as a quote like this:
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Having more outrage about looting than the unwarranted death of a human being is weird to me.
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It’s often voluntarily. One can choose to leave it blank.
I’ve run into obstacles in previous discussions with trying to explain that “understanding” and “agreement” are not synonymous with each other. It can at time take many conversational transactions before the two are not conflated.
Truthfully I’m not sure if you’re referring to identifying race on housing applications or “shopping preferences,” which would seem to be important here. But in terms of your final statement, the riots occurring all over the US tonight seem to indicate that race is important to many because they aren’t treated equally as a result of it. It should be important to all of us when people are still persecuted because of it.
Let me try to explain it. Where you are, is there a discrepancy in ways people are treated based on race, religion or any other prejudice? More to the point, how would one know if there is a problem it there is never any data collected on the subject. Without that question, there will never be any data, and all that can happen is an exchange of opinions and ignorance. We collect race data in most instances so that we can track how we as a society are progressing.
I’ll keep an eye out for Hawaiian shirts, but I think that that might result in false positives.
More times than not the information is going to be used for records/statistics, not individual grade evaluation. A frequent purpose of the records is to identify problem patterns. The race box is one data point of many that is used this way. Much like the data collected in various other surveys a single attribute from a single member of the population has little informational value. Aggregate data on the other hand can be valuable (see “data network effect”).